Anyone Can Play Music: Unlock Your Musical Potential with the Laws of Brainjo

A neurosciencebased approach to musical instruction for adults, engineered to help grow, protect, and restore brain healthYou can learn to play music, no matter what youve been told about your musical talent or aptitude. Each and every one of us has been gifted with a fully customizable brain, one we can mold to learn anything, at any age. With the right instruction and methods, learning to play music can be an endless source of joy and fulfillment. And learning to play music isnt just fun, its also the ideal brain fitness activity.Dr. Turknett, a neurologist, selftaught multiinstrumentalist, and the founder of Brainjo and the Brainjo Method of instruction, which has been used successfully by thousands of people, distills the principles of learning to play music down into a set of universal laws that can be applied to any instrument. His innovative and proven approach synthesizes the latest in neuroscience and skillbuilding theory, emphasizing practicing smarter, not harder, recognizing that there is no failure, only feedback, and leveraging the immense power of subconscious learning.Success or failure in learning to play music, just like anything else, is driven by how we learn. More specifically, it is driven by how well we engage our brains remarkable ability to change itself. Anyone Can Play Music is about the fundamental principles of learning, an owners manual for molding a musical mind.The benefits of learning an instrument extend beyond the immense pleasure that it brings. Recent research indicates that stimulating neuroplasticity, or the brains ability to change itself, leads to brain growth, reverses brain aging and even restores youthful brain function. The more areas of the brain that are stimulated, the greater the benefit. And when it comes to a whole brain workout, nothing beats playing music.While much of Dr. Turknetts detailed instructions are musicspecific, the strategies underpinning this book apply not only to learning to play music, but to any kind of skill building. Our plastic brains are capable of so much more than we realize, as long as we can learn how to learn.